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来源：Offshore  Energy 2025-01-25

翻译：国际海事信息网 檀智 张运鸿

       

        普睿司曼放弃在马萨诸塞州建设2亿美元海底电缆工厂的计划

 

        普睿司曼已通知马萨诸塞州索默塞特市的地方当局，该公司决定不再推进原计划在布雷顿角建设的海上风电电缆工厂。该工厂原计划建在2017年关闭的燃煤电厂旧址上。

 

        据普睿司曼称，其全部数十亿欧元的海底输电项目积压都在欧洲，而在美国，公司将专注于数据中心发展和整体能源需求增长带来的机会。

 

        这家总部位于意大利的全球电力电缆制造商在2021年宣布了建设海底输电电缆制造设施的计划，当时该公司获得了 Commonwealth Wind 和 Park City Wind 项目的有条件合同，这两个项目现在统称为新英格兰风能。

 

        2022年初，普睿司曼表示已与商业开发公司（CDC）签订了布雷顿角场地的购买协议，该工厂将为 Commonwealth Wind 项目生产出口电缆，代表了2亿美元（约合1.91亿欧元）的投资。

 

        CDC购买并重新开发了前燃煤电厂的场地，表示“布雷顿角向可再生能源开发的转型所产生的经济影响将超过关闭燃煤电厂所造成的损失”。

 

        在与CDC签订协议后，普睿司曼继续推进将电缆制造设施变为现实的计划，获得了必要的授权和许可，其中一项去年在法庭上受到挑战，据当地媒体报道。

 

        据美国国会议员杰克·奥钦克洛斯称，该公司于1月17日宣布将停止开发提议的海底电缆工厂，他在1月18日发表声明称该公司的决定“令人失望和沮丧”。

 

        奥钦克洛斯说：“该工厂位于一个已退役的燃煤电厂场址，将创造数百个生产海底电缆的良好工作岗位，这些电缆将海上风力涡轮机接入电网。”

 

        国会议员杰克·奥钦克洛斯还提到了当时正在讨论的美国海上风电暂停令，当时即将成为美国总统的唐纳德·特朗普在几天前的新闻发布会上讨论了这一问题。奥钦克洛斯在1月18日表示，暂停令的传言正在制造不确定性，导致公司撤回投资。

 

        然而，普睿司曼表示，该公司的决定与任何政治发展无关，而是市场机会的战略评估结果。

 

        “普睿司曼一直在评估市场机会，以使我们的产能与需求保持一致，最好地满足客户的需求，并在我们的增长市场中，包括美国和全球范围内，进行高效及时的投资——包括所有相关的许可权限。因此，在考虑了包括美国和全球电缆市场强劲增长机会在内的因素后，普睿司曼决定不继续购买索默塞特的土地，因此也不会继续推进布雷顿角项目。我们想感谢我们在该项目上工作期间从州和地方领导人以及索默塞特居民那里得到的支持”，该公司在一份声明中表示。

 

        普睿司曼的一位发言人告诉我们的姊妹新闻网站offshoreWIND.biz，该公司的180亿欧元输电积压全部集中在欧洲，普睿司曼预计全球输电市场至少到2030年每年价值150亿欧元，意大利制造商的市场份额约为40%。

 

        “在美国市场有很好的增长机会，这得益于数据中心、美国工业的回流、电气化和整体能源需求的增加。这与我们2024年以40亿美元收购Encore Wire完全一致”，该发言人说。

 

        据一位接近该行业内部的消息人士称，美国的海底输电市场与欧洲不同，对互联器的需求不同，海上风电是美国增长的更重要驱动力，而不是互联器。鉴于普睿司曼在积压中没有这类项目，美国海底输电市场非常小，因此公司需要将新产能的投资与需求相匹配。

 

        据该行业消息人士称，在欧洲，这方面的机会数量大不相同，既受到互联器和海上风电的推动，普睿司曼在那里已经有一个明确且庞大的积压。

       

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Prysmian drops plan to build $200 million subsea cable factory in Massachusetts

 

Prysmian has informed local authorities in Somerset, Massachusetts, about the company’s decision not to move forward with the factory for offshore wind power cables that was planned to be built at Brayton Point on a site that previously housed a coal-fired power plant which was shut down in 2017.

 

According to Prysmian, its entire multi-billion-euro backlog of subsea transmission projects was in Europe and in the U.S., the company will focus on opportunities driven by developments such as data centres and the overall increase in energy demand.

 

The Italy-based global power cable manufacturer announced the plans for the manufacturing facility for subsea transmission cables in 2021 when the company secured conditional contracts for the Commonwealth Wind and Park City Wind projects, now collectively called New England Wind.

 

In early 2022, Prysmian said it signed a purchase agreement with Commercial Development Company (CDC) for the Brayton Point site and that the factory, which would produce export cables for Commonwealth Wind as the first project, represented a $200 million (around €191 million) investment.

 

CDC, which purchased and redeveloped the site of the former coal-fired power plant, said that “the economic impact of Brayton Point’s transition to a renewable energy development will surpass the loss incurred by the closure of the coal-fired power plant”.

 

After signing the agreement with CDC, Prysmian continued working on the plan to bring the cable manufacturing facility to realization, securing the necessary authorizations and permits, one of which was challenged in court last year, according to local media.

 

The company announced it would end the development of the proposed subsea cable factory on January 17, according to U.S. Congressman Jake Auchincloss, who issued a statement on January 18 saying the company’s decision was “disappointing and discouraging.”

 

“The factory, on the site of a decommissioned coal-fired power plant, would have created hundreds of good jobs producing the submarine cables that plug offshore wind turbines into the electrical grid”, Auchincloss said.

 

Congressman Jake Auchincloss also mentioned the talks about a moratorium on offshore wind in the U.S. which, at the time when Auchincloss issued the statement, was discussed by the now-U.S. President Donald Trump at a press conference several days prior. Auchincloss said on January 18 that the word of a moratorium was generating uncertainty, leading to companies pulling back investments.

 

However, Prysmian says the company’s decision is not linked to any political development and that it is a result of a strategic assessment of market opportunities.

 

“Prysmian is continuously evaluating market opportunities for our capacity to be aligned with demand, to best serve our customers’ needs, and to also carry out efficient and timely investments — including all relevant permitting permissions — in our growing markets, in the US and globally. As a result of the consideration, including the strong growth opportunities in the U.S. and global cable markets, Prysmian has decided to not proceed with the purchase of the land in Somerset, and therefore will not proceed with the Brayton Point project. We would like to share our appreciation for the support that we received from the state and local leaders as well as the residents of Somerset while we worked on this project”, the company said in a statement.

 

A Prysmian spokesperson told our sibling news site offshoreWIND.biz that the company’s €18 billion transmission backlog was entirely concentrated in Europe and that Prysmian foresees the global transmission market to be worth €15 billion per year until at least 2030, with the Italian manufacturer having a circa 40% market share.

 

“There are excellent opportunities for growth in the US market, driven by data centres, reshoring of US industry, electrification and the overall increase in energy demand. This is fully aligned to our 4bn USD acquisition of Encore Wire in 2024”, the spokesperson said.

 

According to a source from within the market and close to the matter, the U.S. subsea transmission market differs from that in Europe in terms of the demand for interconnectors, with offshore wind being a far more significant driver of growth in the U.S. than interconnectors. Given that Prysmian had no projects of this kind in the backlog, it made the U.S. subsea transmission market very small so the company needed to align its investment in new capacity with the demand.

 

In Europe, the volume of opportunities in this regard is much different, driven by both interconnectors and offshore wind, with Prysmian already having a clear and large backlog there, according to the source from the industry.

来源：simic